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Somehow this game left a huge impression on me after just 3 hours. I'm no doctor, but the "Life" mode really makes me feel like one. A small-time doctor with limited influence. Allow me to explain:
1) To diagnose something, prescribe treatment or convince your patient to eat healthily, you need bio points. So you need to decide which one of those is more important.
2) Diseases have a "hierarchy". Someone can't have a heart attack if they don't have arrhythmia. And they can't have arrhythmia if they don't have clots. I'm not sure if this accurate, but this often makes you go "okay, so the symptoms fit X and Y. X requires the patient to also have Z disease and there are no symptoms for it. So it must be Y." And this kind of puzzle thing is very cool.
3) Diseases in one category can affect other systems too. So, say, you see the patient's muscles and brain are getting damaged at the same time. The symptoms suggest it can be either due to muscle dystrophy or Parkinson disease. If you want to test for both, you'd have to run two separate tests, which cost a lot of biopoints. So you can only pick one and if you pick wrong, the patient suffers. This makes you think and also encourages you to either memorise diseases or, at least, read about them before making a decision.
4) There's a pause. Whenever you open the biopoints menu, the game effectively pauses. So you can carefully weigh your options with no stress induced by limited time.
So. "Death" mode can show you what can quickly kill you. Including lifestyle choices. "Life" mode does not simply simulate treating someone. The limited amount of biopoints simulates lack of equipment, incompetent personnel and uncooperative patients. It can make you consider leading a healthier lifestyle and it really puts you in the shoes of a stressed-out doctor. And you can find yourself thinking "okay, we don't have the means to treat this disease yet, but we can mitigate it with some exercise and diet. So let's prescribe him that." Just flat-out amazing in my opinion. I did not expect it to impress me this much. Highly recommended, especially with a discount.